Line or rope holder



(No Model.) v V W. I. KIEFER'.

LINE 0R ROPE HOLDER.

Patenfned'Deo. 22, 1891.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

\VILLIAM F. KIEFER, OF NEWARK, NEIV JERSEY.

LINE OR ROPE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,577, dated December 22, 1891.

Application filed May 6, 1891. Serial No. 391,723. (No model.)

T0 aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. KIEFER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Line or Rope Holders? and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention; such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

The object of this invention is to enable clothes-lines to be quickly and easily fastened ready to receive the clothes; and it consists in the improved fastener having the arrange mentsandcombinationsofparts,substantially as will be hereinafter set forth, and finally embodied in the claim.

The accompanying drawing shows the desite end of the device is another eye h, and

On the opposite side of the eye h from the cross-head is a hook j, which extends in an inclined direction, nearly parallel with the shank 70 toward the eye 9. a narrow or acute angle Z being formed into which the line may be forced and held. In lieu of the eye got-her means for attaching the line may be provided and other modifications may be made without departing from the invention.

In operating the device the line is first fastened to the eye g. It is then brought around the pulley c and then to the pulley (Z and fastenerf. Here it is extended through the eye h and out into the angles 2" of the crosshead i, then across the face i to the angle 6 and thence back to the eye h, and to the hook j, where it is caught in the angle Z, as will be understood.

hat I claim as new is-.

The fastener for clothes-lines, which consists of a shank 70, having at one end means by which it can be secured to the clothes-line and at the other end having an eye h, a crosshead i, and hook j, all substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 20th day of April, 1891.

WILLIAM F. KIEFER.

Witnesses:

CHARLES H. PELL, OSCAR A. MICHEL. 

